00 HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 22 01 Requesting the United States Congress to propose an amendment to the Constitution of 02 the United States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a 03 member of the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United 04 States Senate; and requesting the United States Congress to call for a constitutional 05 convention of the states to propose a single amendment to the Constitution of the United 06 States to set a limit on the number of terms that a person may be elected as a member of 07 the United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United States 08 Senate. 09 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 10 WHEREAS art. V, Constitution of the United States, provides the states with the 11 authority to call a constitutional convention for the purpose of proposing an amendment to the 12 Constitution of the United States on application by at least two-thirds of the states; and 13 WHEREAS that power provides the states with the leverage needed to force the 14 United States Congress to act when the United States Congress otherwise does not want to; 01 and 02 WHEREAS the citizens of this state and 22 other states, having passed statutes or 03 state constitutional amendments placing term limits on members of the United States 04 Congress, were overruled by the United States Supreme Court; and 05 WHEREAS the citizens of this state are overwhelmingly supportive of placing term 06 limits on members of the United States Congress; and 07 WHEREAS the Alaska State Legislature, a body of citizen legislators, desires to 08 restore rotation in office for members serving in the United States Congress; 09 BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature joins other states in instructing 10 the United States Congress to draft an amendment on term limits and to send the amendment 11 to the states for ratification, failing which the states will act independently; and be it 12 FURTHER RESOLVED by the Alaska State Legislature that, under art. V, 13 Constitution of the United States, the Alaska State Legislature formally applies to the United 14 States Congress to call a convention limited to proposing an amendment to the United States 15 Constitution to set a limit on the number of terms a person may be elected as a member of the 16 United States House of Representatives and as a member of the United States Senate; and be 17 it 18 FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature requests that this 19 application be considered as covering the same subject matter as the applications from other 20 states to the United States Congress to call a convention to set a limit on the number of terms 21 that a person may be elected to the United States House of Representatives and the United 22 States Senate; and be it 23 FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature requests that this 24 application be aggregated with the applications of other states for the purpose of attaining the 25 two-thirds of the states necessary to require the United States Congress to call a limited 26 convention for the purpose of setting term limits on the members of the United States 27 Congress, but that this application not be aggregated with any other application on any other 28 subject; and be it 29 FURTHER RESOLVED that this resolution constitutes a continuing application in 30 accordance with art. V, Constitution of the United States, until the legislatures of at least two- 31 thirds of the states have made applications on the same subject. 01 COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable JD Vance, Vice President of 02 the United States and President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Mike Johnson, Speaker of 03 the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable Jackie Barber, Secretary of the U.S. Senate; 04 the Honorable Kevin McCumber, Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives; the Honorable 05 Jim Jordan, Chair of the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary; the Honorable Lisa 06 Murkowski and the Honorable Dan Sullivan, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Nicholas 07 Begich, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress; and the 08 presiding officers of the legislatures of each of the other 49 states.